Posts Tagged ‘framebuilders’

This last weekend was the 4th Annual Texas Custom Bicycle Show at the Austin Convention Center. In addition to previous exhibitors, we saw 5 new exhibitors reflecting the growth of framebuilding in Texas and beyond. There we lots of great bikes and locally made accessories. Look for the show to return next fall but maybe [...]

This Saturday and Sunday the Texas Custom Bicycle Show will be bringing framebuilders and bicycle accessory makes from the Lone Star State and beyond to our fair city. Since its humble start at the Frisco Velodrome in North Dallas four years ago, the show created by Daltex‘s Glenn Thompson has grown each year with over [...]

The North American Handmade Bicycle Show begins today at the Austin Convention Center with framebuilder from all over the US descending on Austin with all manner of two wheeled creations. While I’ll be exhibiting, I’ll also be shooting pictures and sharing each day. Here is a gallery of shots from the yesterday’s pre-show parties including [...]

Yesterday, we posted audio from the first framebuilder roundtable at the 2010 Texas Custom Bicycle Show. Today, here is the second roundtable which included Brad Cason of KirkLee Bicycles and Dimitri Harris of MEECH Custom Bikes. Framebuilder Roundtable #2, Part 1 of 3 Framebuilder Roundtable #2, Part 2 of 3 Framebuilder Roundtable #2, Part 3 [...]

The Texas Custom Bicycle Show is just 10 days away, and I’ve been liternally burning the midnight oil to get the show bike down for my Violet Crown Cycles booth. For the show, I decided on building a travel randonneur bike with some special features. As the bike is designed to breakdown into a regular [...]

UPDATE: The show is also looking for volunteers if you want to help with this show that is free to the public. Also in addition to the website, the show has a blog which will include profiles of the builders and you can follow the show on Facebook and Twitter. ———— Mark your calendar! Now [...]

The North American Handmade Bicycle Show is this weekend in Richmond, VA, and while I’m a framebuilder, events in my life have conspired to prevent me from attending this year. Since A2W will not have direct coverage there, here are some recently made films from various great North American framebuilders to get you thinking about [...]

The second annual Texas Custom Bicycle Show wrapped up on Sunday in Dripping Springs at the finish line of the LiveStrong Challenge. The show saw a large number of attendees in addition to the LiveStrong participants with folks coming in from Dallas, Houston, San Antonio, Conroe, and Fredericksburg just to see custom bicycles made by [...]

This Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, the finest custom bicycle builders from all over the Lone Star state (plus one honorary Texan from Philadelphia) will converge on Austin for the second annual Texas Custom Bicycle Show. The show is free and open to the public and will be a part of the Expo at the LiveStrong [...]

This weekend, the Oregon Manifest kicked off with their Oregon Manifest Constructors Challenge contest and race. The Oregon Manifest, their hand built bike show, has expanded this year from a long weekend highlighting local builders to a six week celebration of all things bicycle related. The schedule of events puts our annual Bike Month celebration [...]